HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1469

28 July, 1469. Rhodes.
Fr. Giovanni-Baptista de Orsinis, Master, and the Convent grant some houses in Frisia to Fr. Peter Madur. - Names of predecessors are not mentioned, nor is any mention made of the existence of a vacancy per cessum vel decessum. Fr. Peter Madur is probably a knight of the Order, since he is not alluded to by the title of chaplain. (NLM Arch. 378, fol. 139v-140r, copy, register = liber bullarum 1469 / J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 75)

16 August, 1469. Westminster.
[Edward IV appoints], during pleasure, the king's councillor John Langstrother, knight, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, as treasurer of England with all rights, regards, and privileges. (TNA, Patent Rolls Edw IV, membrane 3 / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, Henry IV, 1467-1477, p. 165)

5 October, 1469. Rhodes.
Master and Convent decide that the preceptory of Haarlem, hitherto a member of the prioral chamber of Utrecht, becomes an independent prioral chamber for which the bailiwick Utrecht no longer has to pay. (Stadsarchief Haarlem, Inventaris Enschede, I, nr.1789, original / NLM Arch. 378, fol. 144r-145v, copy, register = liber bullarum 1469 / NLM Arch. 45, fol. 220v-222r, Visitation of Germany 1495 / J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 76 note)

19 October, 1469. Rhodes.
Fr. Giovanni-Baptista de Orsinis, Master, authorizes the Fr. Jean de Chalby and Jacques Calliot to do justice in the case of Fr. Johann von Ow, Prior of Germany, versus Fr. Engelbert van Foreest, Bailiff of Utrecht, who refuses to pay his full duties to the treasury and has not yet appeared at the Convent, in person or by proxies, to defend his case. (NLM Arch. 46, 2, notarial copy, parchment / J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 76)

25 October, 1469. Westminster.
[Edward IV appoints] the king's kinsman William, bishop of Ely, as treasurer of the exchequer. [...] Mandate in pursuance of John Langstrother, knight, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, to deliver the keys, etc. (TNA, Patent Rolls Edw IV, membrane 3 / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, Henry IV, 1467-1477, p. 176)

11 November, 1469. Westminster.
Whereas on 16 August last by letters patent the king appointed John Langstrother, prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England, treasurer of England, but the office as formerly granted by the name of the office of treasurer of the Exchequer. The king, to prevent ambiguity, confirms all concessions, assignments, and payments made by the said treasurer by virtue of the said letters, and pardons to him all offences committed by him since that date in office of treasurer of England or the office of the treasurer of the Exchequer. (TNA, Patent Rolls Edw IV, membrane 19 / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, Henry IV, 1467-1477, p. 177)

Back to the Homepage Hospitaller Sources